November 01, 2005
Geography Lesson
Owen is posting the question "Where's Tabor?" It's right where it's been since immigrants from Bohemia started settling the area in 1852, north of the city of Racine. The name supposedly comes from a Gypsy word meaning "gathering place". The area is being subsumed in development bearing other place names, but there is still a historic marker on the old Bohemian school.
The other place in Wisconsin people ask about is in the middle of Sheboygan county, south of Plymouth on Hiway 57. The name comes from O.H. Waldo, a prominent Milwaukee lawyer who was president of the railroad company which developed the area.
Posted by triticale at November 1, 2005 07:41 PM | TrackBackComments
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